I have never understood why people call bands like Beneath the Massacre, Killswitch Engage, Job for a Cowboy and Bring Me the Horizon "metalcore". Whats hardcore about them? When I say metalcore I think of sick shit like Earth Crisis, Birthright, Chokehold, All Out War etc

The definition has just been corrupted over time to refer to a lot of these horrid trendy bands. Old school sounding metalcore is awesome though. All Out War's Condemned to Suffer just makes me want to kill some shit.

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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:51 pm

XDFFSX wrote:

I have never understood why people call bands like Beneath the Massacre, Killswitch Engage, Job for a Cowboy and Bring Me the Horizon "metalcore". Whats hardcore about them? When I say metalcore I think of sick shit like Earth Crisis, Birthright, Chokehold, All Out War etc

No one ever calls Job for a Cowboy or Beneath the Massacre "metalcore". Just sayin'.

for As Blood Runs Black (aka At The Gates worship with occasional breakdowns) i recommend;

All Shall Perish - The Price of ExistenceThe Black Dahlia Murder - (everything)Mirror Of Dead Faces - LamentationKnights Of The Abyss - ShadesThrough The Eyes Of The Dead - BloodlustThe End Of All Reason - Fragmented

actually i think i got my rec wrong, they are not symphonic deathcore maybe melodic deathcore but i just thought they were more symphonic deathcore because i have not listened to them for ages and got into them at the same time as make them suffer so that is why i associate them with each other

I have never understood why people call bands like Beneath the Massacre, Killswitch Engage, Job for a Cowboy and Bring Me the Horizon "metalcore". Whats hardcore about them? When I say metalcore I think of sick shit like Earth Crisis, Birthright, Chokehold, All Out War etc

I have never understood why people call bands like Beneath the Massacre, Killswitch Engage, Job for a Cowboy and Bring Me the Horizon "metalcore". Whats hardcore about them? When I say metalcore I think of sick shit like Earth Crisis, Birthright, Chokehold, All Out War etc

well, then what would you call them?

well there's one thing I do believe, and that is Beneath the Massacre isn't deathcore. Bring Me the Horizon and early JFAC are undoubtedly metal/deathcore, though.

These two are pretty much of their sound, maybe not something that would be on this site, but I'm just curious to find out their genre, cuz I don't find any place(except facebook, but how much can one trust that info? at least when it comes to the genre part) where I can find trustable info about them.

Anyone know any more good symphonic metalcore/deathcore along the lines of Hope For the Dying? Or bands like August Burns Red, would work, too.

Thanks in advance

I made a post about 10 posts about symphonic deathcore recs, check it out. As for August Burns Red, search 'progressive metalcore' and you will find similar stuff. Check out the band The Soulless for a start.